Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sirota

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From *sirъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun edit

*sirota f

orphan

Declension edit

Declension of *sirota (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*sirota	*sirotě	*siroty
genitive	*siroty	*sirotu	*sirotъ
dative	*sirotě	*sirotama	*sirotamъ
accusative	*sirotǫ	*sirotě	*siroty
instrumental	sirotojǫ, sirotǫ^**	*sirotama	*sirotami
locative	*sirotě	*sirotu	sirotasъ, sirotaxъ^*
vocative	*siroto	*sirotě	*siroty

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: сирота (sirota)
  - Old Belarusian: сирота (sirota)^[1]
    - Belarusian: сірата́ (siratá)
  - Russian: сирота́ (sirotá)
  - Old Ukrainian: сирота (sirota)^[2]
    - Ukrainian: сирота́ (syrotá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: сирота (sirota)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱄⰻⱃⱁⱅⰰ (sirota)
- Bulgarian: сирота́ (sirotá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: сиро̀та
  
  Latin script: siròta
- Slovene: sirota
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: sirota
  - Czech: sirota
- Old Polish: sirota
  - Polish: sierota
- Slovak: sirota
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: syrota
  - Upper Sorbian: syrota

Further reading edit

Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “си́рый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

^
^{The template Template:R:zle-obe:HSBM does not use the parameter(s): url=sirota
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “сирота”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 271
^ Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “сирота”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 346

[1] {The template Template:R:zle-obe:HSBM does not use the parameter(s): url=sirota
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Bulyka, A. M., editor (2011), “сирота”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 31 (рушаючий – смущенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 271

[2] Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “сирота”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 346

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